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2010 saw many things, from the Evergreen football team making a rare state playoff appearance to individual state titles in gymnastics and skiing to a domininating run by the cross country team. The following is a list of the Canyon Courier’s Top 10 sports stories for the past year:

A sturdy, rustic monument to military personnel was dedicated to the sounds of taps, bagpipes and a rifle salute on Nov. 13 in the presence of 350 community members, veterans and several Gold Star families, who recently lost young men at war.

The Veterans and Service Members Commemorative Walk is the first such monument to be established in the Evergreen community.

Combine golf clubs, tennis balls and a frozen lake, and what do you get?

Blue Spruce Kiwanis and Evergreen Park and Rec are hoping to launch a new winter tradition beginning with the first Ice Golf Tournament at 11 a.m. Jan. 23 on Evergreen Lake.

Blue Spruce Kiwanis is producing the contest, which benefits the Evergreen Park and Recreation Special Needs Program and the Blue Spruce Kiwanis Foundation. The goal is to raise enough money to start an Aktion Club in Evergreen for developmentally disabled adults, said Kim Herfurt, Kiwanis president.

An Evergreen nonprofit foundation became the victim of a common form of corporate identity theft after a member of the board of directors altered the foundation's listing on the secretary of state's website.

The Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen Foundation, like dozens of entities in Colorado and elsewhere, was unwittingly victimized by a flaw in the online process that takes advantage of a third party's ability to change information on the secretary of state's website without using a password.

Boulder officials accepted a $5 million carrot from Jefferson County on Tuesday and will abandon decades-old resistance to the proposed Jefferson Parkway in exchange for the contribution toward purchasing 640 acres of open space.
Both the city council and the Boulder County commissioners unanimously passed resolutions officially dropping their objections to the toll road, which would complete the metro-area beltway.

A hazardous materials spill closed Interstate 70 on Tuesday in Summit County on the west side of the Eisenhower Tunnel, but all lanes had reopened by Wednesday morning.

The state transportation department said two trucks collided 4 miles east of Dillon, and one of them spilled 1,000 pounds of a "blasting agent." The highway was initially closed in both directions; the eastbound lanes were opened later Tuesday evening. Westbound traffic was being detoured over Loveland Pass, which had been closed earlier in the day for avalanche prevention work.

Evergreen piano duo Simon & Son just returned from a 40-city tour of the Midwest and are happy to be home for the holidays. The duo performed in New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana.

Recently I was reading a book to my kids about the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787 when a remarkable fact jumped out: The delegates conducted their work in absolute secrecy. This was one of the only ground rules of the convention, and not until James Madison’s death in 1840 did his notes reveal the content of many discussions that took place.
It’s very possible the Constitution — and this nation itself — would not exist as we know it had the deliberations been subject to public scrutiny.